From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Thomas Sniffen Subject: Re: reiser4 non-free? Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:44:01 -0400 Message-ID: <87k6zpy8ke.fsf@aule.evenmere.org> References: <4097CCA4.4060707@namesys.com> <87fzag139k.fsf@aule.evenmere.org> <4099A868.9030406@slaphack.com> <20040506.083242.41632888.wlandry@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040506.083242.41632888.wlandry@ucsd.edu> (Walter Landry's message of "Thu, 06 May 2004 08:32:42 -0400 (EDT)") List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Walter Landry Cc: ninja@slaphack.com, reiser@namesys.com, mjr@dsl.pipex.com, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Walter Landry writes: > David Masover wrote: >> First and foremost: Hans, this is your project. Someone willing to >> replace entire APIs with things that feel like files is obviously not >> afraid of creating something new. So at the end of the day, it >> shouldn't matter too much that it's in Debian Non-free, especially if >> (assuming I heard correctly) XFree86 is also non-free. > > People seem to be missing this issue, so I'll bring it up again. The > problem is not so much whether the license is free or not. The > problem is that it is incompatible with the GPL. That means that > Debian can't distribute it _at all_. Not in main, not in non-free. > Not at all. > > The license may be perfectly free (e.g. the IBM CPL), but if it is > incompatible with the GPL, then Debian can't distribute it. You're right, Walter, and thank you for the clarification. To clarify further, Debian can't distribute a derivative work of the Linux kernel which is not licensed under the GPL. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu